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...Faculty Council devoted several meetings over the fall and winter to discuss what is wrong with the system. FAS even hired its own consultant to independently confirm its assessment...
Several students who work as assistants in the building said they had been made aware of bomb threats, though neither HUPD or William James Hall officials would confirm them...
...Temple Mount, a site on which the third-holiest site in Islam - the Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock - is built atop the ruins of Judaism's holiest temple. "The Palestinian Authority will do everything in its power to make the trip appear to confirm its claim on East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, while the Israelis will do everything to prevent that and to stake their own claims," says Beyer. "So the papal visit is likely to see a lot of political jostling...
Last fall, responding to abnormally high levels of student dissatisfaction, Harvard Law School (HLS) commissioned McKinsey & Co. to survey disgruntled law students. The results confirm what many of us knew all along: HLS needs to focus more attention on its basic educational issues, such as decreasing class sizes, hiring more faculty and revamping its grading system. HLS has already formed exploratory committees to address some of these issues, but the true test of responsiveness will be whether the administration institutes some, if not all, of these reforms by next fall...
...bian won the presidential election Saturday have been allayed - for now. And so Beijing and Taipei have locked in a holding pattern: Chen maintains that his country is sovereign, while Chinese President Jiang Zemin holds (as does the U.S.) that Taiwan is a subset of China. As if to confirm that state of affairs, Chen, speaking in a post-victory speech in Mandarin as a seeming display of respect to China, said he wouldn't hold a national referendum on declaring Taiwanese sovereignty. Meanwhile, Beijing refrained from military action, and issued a statement saying it would take a "wait...